Ine Beyens (PhD, 2015) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam. She is affiliated with the Center for research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media and a member of the Consortium on Individual Development of the NWO Gravitation Program. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, she worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant in the School for Mass Communication Research at KU Leuven (Belgium), where she completed her PhD.

Her research focuses on the uses and effects of screen media among children and adolescents. She is currently involved in professor Patti Valkenburg’s project “The entertainization of childhood: An etiology of risks and opportunities,” where she is focusing on the relationship between media and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the role of individual difference factors in the relationship. Her scholarship has been recognized by Top Paper Awards and Top Student Paper Awards from the Children, Adolescents, and the Media division of the International Communication Association.

2018

Beyens, I., Valkenburg, P. M., & Piotrowski, J. T. (2018). Screen media use and ADHD-related behaviors: Four decades of research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(40), 9875-9881. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611611114[details]

Nathanson, A. I., & Beyens, I. (2018). The role of sleep in the relation between young children’s mobile media use and effortful control. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36(1), 1-21. DOI: 10.1111/bjdp.12196[details]

Beyens, I., & Eggermont, S. (2017). Understanding children’s television exposure from a life logistics perspective: A longitudinal study of the association between mothers’ working hours and young children’s television time. Communication Research, 44(5), 691-716. DOI: 10.1177/0093650215607600

Beyens, I., & Eggermont, S. (2016). Dark climates and media use in the family: The associations among child temperament, maternal mental well-being, and the frequency of mothers' use of television viewing to soothe their children. In L. N. Olson, & M. A. Fine (Eds.), The darker side of family communication: the harmful, the morally suspect, and the socially inappropriate (pp. 87-107). (Lifespan communication: Children, families, and aging; No. 5). New York: Peter Lang. DOI: 10.3726/978-1-4539-1743-5[details]

2014

Beyens, I., & Eggermont, S. (2014). Putting young children in front of the television: Antecedents and outcomes of parents’ use of television as a babysitter. Communication Quarterly, 62(1), 57-74. DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2013.860904

2014

Beyens, I. (2014). Maternal predictors of young children’s television exposure: Findings from a panel study of mothers’ structural life circumstances. Paper presented at 64th International Communication Association Conference, Seattle, United States.

Beyens, I. (2014). The relationship between parents’ cognitions and children’s television viewing: Implications for interventions that reduce television viewing. Paper presented at 64th International Communication Association Conference, Seattle, United States.

2012

Beyens, I., & Eggermont, S. (2012). Parents’ use of television as a babysitter for young children. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Leuven, Belgium.

Beyens, I., & Eggermont, S. (2012). Predictors and consequences of using television as a babysitter for young children. Paper presented at 62nd International Communication Association Conference, Phoenix, United States.

Beyens, I., & Eggermont, S. (2011). Attention and intensity of play as a function of television exposure in very young children. Paper presented at Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap, Enschede, Netherlands.

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